End with a bang. But not literally.

[kageotogi]

Yes, yes, Dumbledore is all about the gay. I'm actually a little annoyed with J.K. Rowling for making that announcement (not because I have anything against homosexuality. Quite the contrary, as most of you can attest, but because I really hate how people are using this as a reason to be for or against certain sexual tendencies).

Now that I've alienated all of you, I'm going to go ahead and prove that there are other things in the world aside from Dumbledore and his sexual preferences. For instance, researchers have finally made a hit against the HIV! This is a huge breakthrough for the scientific and medical community, and I'm celebrating it heartily.

Also, did you know that there's a bacon-ator alarm clock? Essentially, the clock cooks bacon. While you sleep. And then it wakes you up with a smell (which I'm not sure would really do it for me) and a freshly cooked piece of bacon. Mmm, pig meat.

I'd probably get rather nauseous. But I think it's a fun idea. And the pig-clock is sort of cute.

Stephen Colbert is running for president in 2008! I'm not sure whether I'm horrified or thrilled, but I guess that depends on what happens. I'm getting Man of the Year flashbacks, though. Celebrities (who propagate fake news) running for office? Poorly calibrated voting machines? Corrupt business? Oh noes!

Hell, at least the movie had a happy ending. And if I remember correctly, drugs and pie. But not together, I don't think.

And this? I just found it interesting. Steve Martin wrote an alphabet book and it's rather adorable. I was less thrilled to learn about his Pink Panther sequel, but the remark about the French child made me laugh, so kudos to that.

Jim Watson, who won the Nobel prize for biology, apologized for making reportedly racist remarks. But who cares about that? The guy looks like a frickin' zombie. He should apologize for his face scaring the ever living crap out of me, and then we'll talk.

And... Um...

Have you heard? Dumbledore is gay.

Comments

[noueux.livejournal.com]

It's a bad idea. It has to be a joke. I'm surprised one of his bumper sticker ideas wasn't "Colbert - Nader".

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I ♥ Nader. His political stance is a joke, but I ♥ him nonetheless.

[noueux.livejournal.com]

I'm very much in the camp that if someone "makes their voice heard" by voting for a third party candidate, no, they aren't "voting for someone who can't win", or something stupid like that. They're simply failing to work with the rest of America. It's not, that every year, we all just do our own thing, and then we make a decision from that. We need to work together to choose our best compromise. I have a long list of people I'd rather see as president than the candidates. But I'm not going to vote for them, because that would be selfish, on my part.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I don't vote for third party candidates because, quite frankly, I know it would be a farce. As much as I might prefer the third party, it's ridiculous to think that there's any conceivable reason why the candidate might garner enough votes to even be a contender. I'm not sure it's selfish so much as it's purposeless... but I see your point.

[noueux.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, I know a lot of people who claim that its purpose is to promote a more complex and more well distributed political system, instead of this dichotomy we have today. I like the idea of hearing a lot of different points of view, but I also see that it's a good thing that usually our choices come down to one of two. That means that we're capable of compromise and dialogue, and for the most part, we can agree. Except for the whole viciousness of the two-party system.

[kageotogi.livejournal.com]

I could see the benefits of a three-party system, but the two-party seems to work all right. Mostly. If we could somehow screen the crap candidates before the vote (oh, hey, wait! That's what's supposed to happen -- whoops) we might yield better results.

Or perhaps if there was a way to better distinguish between party lines and ideals and perhaps find a real compromise, that could work. I don't know; it's all very convoluted.